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Death By Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

This post brought to you by Dollar General. All opinions are 100% mine.

It is almost Halloween! Are you excited? Can you tell I am?? No? You must have missed out on I{ce} Scream Cupcakes and my super adorable Bat Truffles. Because if those don’t say “Hey! I’m excited!” I don’t know what will. Actually, I do! How about some more Halloween inspired treats? This time we are going with a chocolate cupcake recipe.

What exactly does that mean? It means chocolate + chocolate + a little more chocolate stuffed into a tiny little cupcake. And if that isn’t enough I topped them with a cookie. I thought that was such a super fun and creative way to use some of those tall rounded cookies, but then realized they are already out there… everywhere. But can’t blame this girl for tryin’. Seems like everything is out there now a days.

2 oz. chocolate, melted (I used a Hershey's bar that I picked up from Dollar General)

2 eggs

1/2 C canola oil

2 t. pure vanilla extract

1/3 C. full-fat sour cream

1 C. flour

1/2 t. salt

1/2 t. baking soda

1/2 C. cocoa powder

1/2 C. room temperature water or room temperature coffee

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line one muffin tin with paper liners. Set aside.

Whisk together your flour, salt, baking soda, and cocoa until it’s smooth and no lumps remain. Set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the melted chocolate, eggs, oil, vanilla, and sour cream. Once that is fully combined you can add in your dry ingredients followed by the water (or coffee). Make sure you scrape down the sides of the bowl and incorporate all of the ingredients.

Fill your liners 2/3 full and bake for 16 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

If you decide to use coffee, make sure you brew it strong. It brings out a lot of the chocolate flavor and you will be surprised how none of the brewed taste sticks around. Think of it like a chocolate flavor enhancer.

Now, I filled my cupcakes with a basic chocolate ganache. The frosting was just a mixed up concoction of butter, vanilla, powdered sugar, and heavy cream. I’m sure any of your favorite recipes will work nicely here.

While I was picking up Halloween supplies at Dollar General I happened to stumble into their Halloween section. Oh my fun! Guys, how did I not know about all of the supplies they have there?? I ended up grabbing some fun black webbing and giant tombstones to spruce up the place. Or spruce down? Our home is starting to look a little dark and scary.